Papers by Ragitha Radhakrishnan
Medico-Legal Update, 2021
Background: The expressed attitude is a psychological component that represents a mental and emot... more Background: The expressed attitude is a psychological component that represents a mental and emotionalentity that inherent or characterizes a person. The positive and negative attitude that we express representswho we are and how we are connected to ourselves and society. An attitude is usually formed based on theindividual’s past and present events in life. Also, social environment and lifestyle play a role in attitudeformation. Studies indicate that mental health professionals hold mixed attitude such as positive and negativetowards mental illness hence this study was carried out to find out the expressed attitude of mental healthprofessionals towards children with autism spectrum disorder.Method : Attitude Questionnaire by (Sethi et al., 1982) was modified for the study and the responses werecollected from 21 mental health professionals (5 psychologists, 5 psychiatric nurses, 4 psychiatrists, 4psychiatric social workers, 3 special educators). The collected data was computed with ...
Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2012
Life style and physical impairment may mutually determine psychodynamic development of an individ... more Life style and physical impairment may mutually determine psychodynamic development of an individual. Courage and social interest, or the lack of them determines whether having a hearing impairment permits a good adjustment or lead to permanent failure of the individual. Resilience refers to the time taken to get back to normalcy after a set-back, reaction to negative events, perception of the effects of past negative events, reaction to risk factors in life, defining problems, confidence in coping with future, and openness to experience and flexibility. Emotional processing is a process whereby emotional disturbances are absorbed, and decline to the extent that other experiences and behaviour can proceed without disruption. The present study examines the emotional processing styles adopted by the hearing impaired and the resilient individuals. A purposive sample of 80 hearing impaired and 89 non-impaired adolescents were taken in the investigation. The sample was drawn from two Gov...
Medico-legal Update, 2021
Background: The expressed attitude is a psychological component that represents a mental and emot... more Background: The expressed attitude is a psychological component that represents a mental and emotional entity that inherent or characterizes a person. The positive and negative attitude that we express represents who we are and how we are connected to ourselves and society. An attitude is usually formed based on the individual's past and present events in life. Also, social environment and lifestyle play a role in attitude formation. Studies indicate that mental health professionals hold mixed attitude such as positive and negative towards mental illness hence this study was carried out to find out the expressed attitude of mental health professionals towards children with autism spectrum disorder. Method : Attitude Questionnaire by (Sethi et al., 1982) was modified for the study and the responses were collected from 21 mental health professionals (5 psychologists, 5 psychiatric nurses, 4 psychiatrists, 4 psychiatric social workers, 3 special educators). The collected data was c...
Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2012
Artha - Journal of Social Sciences
Gender Disparity is a universal phenomenon. The effect is more evident in an organisational setup... more Gender Disparity is a universal phenomenon. The effect is more evident in an organisational setup. Two common forms of gender disparity are sticky floor effect and glass ceiling effect. Glass ceiling effect refers to the barriers that prevent women from progressing to the higher positions in the organisations. It can lead to differences in pay and may prevent women from climbing up the career ladder. The barriers may be psychological, social or organisational. The paper discusses the presence of glass ceiling across different cultures and its implications.
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Papers by Ragitha Radhakrishnan